“You Talk a Good Game”: Football and Masculine Style on British Television

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-84

  Kennedy, Eileen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Englishness; football; gender; masculinity; semiotics; sport; television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990345160     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X00003001003     Document Type: Article

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